I received a copy of Napoleon Hill's 'Think and Grow Rich' in the mail yesterday. I started to read it after my family had gone to bed and all that I can say about it is 'Wow'. I read the Preface, the first chapter, and a bit of the second chapter and am already blown away.

This post is a musing, just some thoughts about what I have read so far.

Thoughts are things that can be trans-mutated into the physical realm of being.

"Success comes to those who become success conscious." pg. 9

There are two parts to the mind, the conscious and the subconscious. The conscious part we can control, the subconscious part just is. Ideas in the subconscious are like magnets that attract like magnets in the physical realm.

Everyone has the capability of completely controlling their thoughts. This is one part of the 'secret', the other part is the method for controlling thought.

One part of the method is to desire something with a resolute firmness so much that nothing will stand int he way of accomplishing that desire. This is the ability to know exactly what one wants.

It is not important to know how you will be successful and reach your desire, if you think about something then your subconscious will magnetize for the accomplishment of your desire.

The desire in an obsession whereas a wish is fleeting. Where there is desire and obsession there soon is a plan backed by a persistence that does not recognize and acknowledge failure. Instead each action is a step towards success, each action is part of the learning process.

After desire comes belief; the absolute belief that you will reach what you desire. To believe you must use your imagination to see yourself already in possession of what you desire.

According to Bob Proctor a paradigm is a “multitude of habits lodged in our subconscious mind.”

As complicated as this sounds, when unpacked it is a simple concept.

The mind, not the brain, is comprised of two parts – the conscious and the subconscious.

The conscious mind is the thinking part of the mind. This is where you interpret the signals sent from your senses, use logic and reason, and create thoughts through your imagination. The conscious mind can accept or reject information; the conscious mind can also create ideas.

The subconscious mind is the emotional part of the mind. The subconscious part of your mind only accepts ideas, it cannot reject them. The subconscious mind accepts ideas from the conscious mind and it holds onto them with a great fury. The subconscious cannot distinguish between what is real and what is imaginary; ideas in the subconscious mind simply are what they are. Whatever the conscious mind repeatedly accepts is conditioned into the subconscious mind; the subconscious mind is emotionally attached to an idea.

Ideas conditioned in the subconscious mind are habits – they are entrenched, or rooted in the subconscious. Once habits are formed in the subconscious it sets a course for the body to act in harmony with the habit, naturally directing actions in accordance with the habit.

Ideas entrenched in our subconscious are manifested through our body and are expressed in the physical realm. Behavior is controlled by subconscious mind – this is where paradigms are locked up. The paradigm controls the behavior.

Ideas are accepted or rejected by the conscious mind, repeatedly accepted ideas are conditioned in the subconscious, and the subconscious dictates behavior to move with a conditioned idea.

Let’s look at it in a different way: a paradigm is your operating system. It is a program controlling you and controlling your results. Each idea is a piece of code; one piece of code controls your eye color, one piece of code controls the language that you speak, and one piece of code controls your income level. Your eye color is dictated by your heredity, but the language you speak and the amount of income you receive is controlled by your environmental conditioning.

You can change the program. Paradigms can be changed and so can your life. To change your life you must change your paradigm.

Paradigms are formed through repetition – ideas being programmed into your subconscious mind. Your habits develop through repetition of accepted ideas.

If you consciously reject old ideas and repeatedly accept new ideas then over time your subconscious will be conditioned with the new idea. When your subconscious is re-conditioned to accept the new idea it will change your behavior to move in harmony with the idea.

Simply, change the code in your subconscious and you change your results. You change the code in your subconscious by rejecting old code, and entering new code.

If you want to live the way you want to live you have to change the program._____________________________________________________“I am so happy and grateful that money comes to me in increasing quantities, from multiple sources, on a continuous basis.”